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Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite

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On 05/10/2012 22:07, Rui Maciel wrote:
> James Kuyper wrote:
>
>> I'm in favor of it, but I think that labeling it as "essential" was
>> excessive. "Desirable" is about the strongest thing I can say about it.
>> C99 had lots of nice new features I wanted to try out; C2011 made some
>> of them optional, and the only new features it added were ones I'm not
>> especially interested in. The ability to write multi-threaded code in an
>> OS-independent fashion is probably of value to someone, but I've no
>> particular need for it.
>
> Truth be told, pthreads already provided a way to write multi-threaded code
> in an OS-independent fashion for nearly a decade, now.  The only thing that
> blocked pthreads' adoption was Microsoft's unwillingness to support it.
> Now, looking at Microsoft's notorious unwillingness to comply with the C
> standard, I believe that C11 won't change that as well.
>

Unfortunately Windows is a required platform for a lot of developers and 
the only way to get a decent C compiler on Windows is to use MinGW or 
the Intel C and C++ compiler suite (I have heard that Clang is making 
progress on the Windows front as well so that may well be an option in 
the not too distant future as well).

All of the above options should support C11 given enough time. The Intel 
compiler in particular was very good at C99 support and was one of the 
first (if I remember correctly) to support the vast majority of the 
standard. So fingers crossed the same will be true for C11.

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C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-09-14 22:20 +0100
  Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite steve.b.hafner@gmail.com - 2012-09-22 08:03 -0700
    Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-09-26 12:54 +0100
  Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-09-26 18:11 +0000
    Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-09-30 00:22 +0100
      Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-09-30 04:14 +0000
        Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-09-30 14:49 +0100
          Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 15:16 +0100
          Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-30 14:47 -0400
          Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-30 14:22 -0700
            Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-10-05 19:33 +0100
              Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-10-05 14:57 -0400
                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 22:07 +0100
                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-10-07 14:04 +0100
                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-11-12 00:04 -0600
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                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-12 10:11 -0800
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                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 21:44 +0100
                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-10-05 21:14 +0000
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                Re: C11 Compiler Test Suite Chicken McNuggets <chicken@mcnuggets.com> - 2012-10-05 21:49 +0100
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